All my videos are playing at really fast/too slowly! What should I do?

This appears to occur if you are not running artsd. Check that arts is running. The size of the arts buffer being used can also cause the video to play at the wrong speed if the buffer is too large. A large buffer causes high-latency sound, which is a bad idea for video editing anyway.

Generally speaking, you should try and tweak the buffer so that it is as small as possible whilst still giving you consistant sound. On my machine, it is happy at around a 40 millisecond buffer size, your milage may vary.

I am running Kdenlive 0.2.0 and Piave 0.2.2 and the monitor does not display anything.

There are some slight incompatabilities between Kdenlive 0.2.0 and piave 0.2.2. Please try Kdenlive 0.2.0 with piave 0.2.1, or Kdenlive CVS with piave CVS. Even better, try Kdenlive 0.2.3! We will endevour to keep the version numbers of Kdenlive and piave in sync from 0.2.3 onwards.

When I try and compile Kdenlive it tells me I need autoconf 2.13 but my distro comes with autoconf 2.5. What should I do?

There are two admin directories withing the cvs version of kdenlive, called admin2_13 and admin2_5. You need to copy, rename or symlink the directory that matches your autoconf tools to admin. So, if the autoxonf installed on your system is 2.13, you would do :

ln -s admin2_13 admin

If you are trying to run an older version of Kdenlive (for instance, 0.2.0), then only an admin directory for 2.13 is provided - you will need to find a copy of the latest admin directory for KDE on the web. a copy of the admin2_5 directory can be found here.

I can't compile Kdenlive on Debian (testing, unstable)!

Answer provided by Alex Exojo

In debian, Qt are installed in /usr/share/qt3, and configure script usually doesn't notice that.

The solution is very easy. Just use

./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3

or better, add

export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3

to your ~/.bashrc.

I think that should do the trick :-).